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23 Jul 2025 Conversations with Tyler Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities
“I think I’ve had to learn to live with myself, if that counts as a work habit. I have always thought that I should grow out of having essay crises, and I never have.”
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- Helen Castor
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- 23 Jul 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…This book has great reviews. It’s fantastic. It’s still selling. I think I’ve had to learn to live with myself, if that counts as a work habit. I have always thought that I should grow out of having essay crises, and I never have. Even if they’re now essay crises that spread over five years for any individual book, I’ve had to accept that that’s how I work, and try as I might, I can’t find a way around it. I’m not sure that’s a successful work habit, but at least it’s a form of self-acceptance. What is it you find so interesting in Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot? Because that’s also a chronological history, right? Told in sequence. He, I think, himself did not know what was going to happen.…
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